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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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The customer needs to have Cloudera metrics

We think could be better to have Cloudera monitoting in the "Platform" section because Cloudera links a lot of other infrastructure metrics below.
9 months ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

Ability to not create additional interfaces seen by Sflow.

With traditional NetFlow, there is an option in cluster manager to "Not create Ingress/Egress records". This limits the interfaces created by the NMS to only those interfaces forwarding flows. This option does not exist or work for Sflow. If you a...
9 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Cloud Pak for AIOps: Event suppression API for devices placed in maintenance and decommissioned through external tools

Event suppression workflow: Device placed in maintenance or decommissioned: Device placed in maintenance in external tool External tool workflow calls CP4Aiops REST API and passes the resource and time window (omit end-time if perpetual or unknown...
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Allow ability to not actually suspend hosts, but put them in a state where no VMs will be placed on them

The way that our infrastructure is set up does not respond kindly to host suspend/power off actions, but we want to be able to densify our current environment. We'd like the ability to enable "suspend host" such that we can operate efficiently on ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Add support for Amazon DynamoDB (Turbonomic)

Many of our customers (including potential customers) use AWS Dynamo DB, and the support for it is the key to Turbonomic's penetration to the Japanese market and customers' higher satisfaction. Your prompt cooperation to our idea would be highly a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Remote monitoring PostgreSQL

With switching to a new hosting provider we won't be able to install Instana agent locally to PostgreSQL-servers anymore. To have end-to-end visibility, please provide a means to configure the Instana agent to monitor PostgreSQL clusters running o...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server

PostgreSQL server monitor via Remote Server , we unable to install Instana agent locally due to restriction, we want to monitor from the remote server Currently no option to add host details # PostgreSQL#com.instana.plugin.postgresql:# user: ''# p...
5 months ago in Instana / Common 1 Future consideration

Custom Dashboard editing permission based on groups

Permission for team members based on user groups for editing custom dashboards. Business Use CaseCustomer have teams working 24x7 and in case if an on-shift person wants to edit the dashboards they need to explicitly grant permission to edit.They ...
almost 4 years ago in Instana / Access Control / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Support CISCO Intersight as Target

CISCO is moving customer away from the legacy UCS Manager solution to their InterSight solution. We no longer have access to UCS Manager in our new UCS environment. So, we will need Turbonomic to start supporting CISCO InterSight as a target in or...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration